Sut Jhally Movies

In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the...

Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at...

In the past three decades, obesity rates in the US have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents, and 70% of adults are now obese...

bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under...

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these...

The documentary focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image and...

Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging and...

This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to...

In one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, Hall speaks with dazzling precision about the responsibilities of intellectuals in the face of...

Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in...

Deepa Kumar, a leading scholar on Islamophobia, argues that U.S. media have turned Arabs and Muslims into the new face of terror, even though only a...

Sports media scholars look at the persistence of heterosexism and homophobia in perpetuating gender stereotypes. They argue for new media images...

Destroying the myth of the 'liberal media,' the documentary shows how corporate interests influence the news coverage of key events.

Edward Said's book ORIENTALISM has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and...

In this powerful new film based on his bestselling book, sociologist Michael Kimmel maps the troubling social world where boys become men -- a new...

Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives...

For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...

In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Edward Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy...

Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this...

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its...